I think the devs played WoW and then went to Ironrealms.com to come up with a story. The MUDs Iron realms make are very good. They are heavy rp focus, very dynamic, and character creation is only limited on how well you type out the discription. (only issue is it text based) My fav one was Lustrion or something close played furrikin. (a tiny animal humanoid) And a tentical beast was plauging the towns. See when Iron realms add stuf they do it on the fly and let ppl get surpized. It was also fun running around alerting everyone about the monster. All higher up of our guilds ad to be informed and all the underlings stayed in the guild halls till it was safe. I kinda wish mmo were like that.

how I discovered the beast was I zoned and was one hit KO. I was like wtf....... WHAT WAS THAT.